Adjustable display-card holder.



L. BLAND.

ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY GARD HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 14, 1909.

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LOUIS BIJ-AND, OF CHICAGO, ILL'INOS.

ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY-CARD HOLDER.A

Specification of Letters Patent. Patmaed Maty 1W, 191C.

Application filed July 14, 1909. Serial 170..'507558.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, Louis BLAND,citizen of the'United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful lm* provements j in yAdjustable Display-CardHolders, of which the following 1s a specilication.

This invention relates to signs, and refers articularly to a device forholding disglay cardsin various positions.

An object of this invention is to provide a A frame for supportingdisplay cards of various sizes and forms and to support such displayvcards by engaging the same about the edges thereof.`

The inventionhas for another object the provision of a support of thisnature which may be adjusted into various angles in order to dispose thedisplay card in the desired position.

The invention further -contemplates the production of a holder of thisnature which is of 'comparatively simple construction,

which'can -`therefore be economically produced and presented to thepublic, and which, at the same time possess the features of strength,durability and being easy of operation.

For a full understanding of the `invention and the merits thereof, andalso to `obtain a knowledge of the details of construction, and themeans for effecting the result, rei-l erence is to be had to thefollowing descrip?.

tion and accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the corn'- plete holder having adisplay card disposed therein; Fig. 2 is affront elevation of the frameof the holder detached and disposed as being adjusted into a diil'erentposlticn; .Fig. 3 is a vertical 'longitudina through one of the sidebars of the frame;`

section Fig. 4 is a section through the line 4-4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is atransverse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a transversesection onthe line 6 6 oi Fig. 1, disclosing thesstandard as secured tothe frame; Fig, 7 discloses a slight modification of one of the sidebars.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to ih the followingdescription, and indicated in all the views of the accompanyingdrawings, by the same reference characters.

erring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates a base which ispreferably of disk formation, and having an u per convex surface.Extending upward rom the central portion of the base 10 is a tube 11which forms the lower end of a telescopic standard, within the upper endof which is slidably disposed a rod 12 adjusted within the tubularmember through the medium of a set screw 18. The support thus formed isprovided with a sleeve 14 mounted upon the upper extremity of the rod12and which carries the fork 'arms 15 which are curved oppositely andsemicircularly and provided with a set screw 16 for the purpose ofclamping the frame of the holder in adjusted position therein, the framebeing hereinafter described.

The frame of the holder comprises a rectangular member, the side' barsof which samprise .longitudinal 4split tubes 17 and 18 which aredisposed in telescopic relation to admit of the adjusting of the' framelinto various sizes.v For the purpose of retaining the split tubes 17 and18 slidably in engagement with one another, and for the purpose ofbracing the side bars of the frame, bands 19 and 20 are employed whichare engaged about thek outer faces of the tubes 17 and 18 in registeredrelation with the inner extremities of the tubes. The band 19 ispositioned about the tube 17 in registered relation with the innerextremity of the tube 18, the ends of the band 19 being turned inwardlyabout the edges of the tubes 17 and 18 and engaged against the innerface of-thetube 18.v The inturned portions 21 of the band 19 aresoldered or otherwise secured to the inner end of the tube 18 wherebythe band 19 is causedv to move with the tube 18 'to retain the tube 18in fixed relation within the tube 17. The band 20 is engaged rigidlyabout the inner end of the over-lapping tube 17 and secured to the tube17 by solder or other suitable fastening means, the band 20 having itsfree ends bent inwardly as at 22, about the edges of the tubes 17 and 18in order to retainthe end of the tube 17 from spreading, or fromdisengagement with the tube 18 in any In the formation of the frame theside bars, which are composed of the tubes 17 and 18 are securedtogether at the corners of the frames in any suitable manner, and arepreferably reinforced by corner irons 23. The .tubes 17 and 18 are solocated in the within the opposite open ends of a sleeve or collar 27. lThe sleeve or collar 27 is of such a size as to bind frictionally uponthe outer faces of the tubes 25 and 26 and to retain the same adjustablyin position.

ln operation the tubes 17 and 18 are grasped in the hands and drawnapart to enlarge the frame, to admit of the insertion ofthe display card24 within the tubes 17 and 18engaging the edges of the display card 24through the longitudinal slots formed in the tubes 17 and 18." rllhetubes are now contracted to reduce the size of the frame whereby theside bars engage against and about the edges of the placard' 24 torigidly support the same within the frame. The frame is now engaged uponthe standard, dis osing one of the cylindrically formed slde barsbetween the forked arms 15 and the set screw 16 against the sidebarosition i ception of the edges of a placard, bands carried on theouter faces of said tubes 'and secured to the o posite inner ends of thesame, a standar engaged with said tubes to support said frame and a baselocated on the lower end of said standard.

2.v A holder including a frame, composed of side bars, each of said sidebars formed of a pair of split tubes disposed in telescopic relation,the outer of said tubes carrying a band rigidly secured to the inner endthereof, inturned portions formed on said band for engagement throughthe splitportions ofthe tubes, a second band carried byv said outer tubeand secured tothe inner tube at the split portion thereof, and inturnedportions forrned upon said second band for en' gagement against theinner face of the inner of said tubes. y

3. A holder including a support, forli arms carried by said support, aframe formed of cylindrical side bars adjustably engaged between saidfork arms and means carriedby said fork armsl for securing said frame inadjusted position.

4. ln a holder the combination with a support, of fork arms carried bysaid support7 a frame formed of cylindrical side bars adjustably imounted between said fork arms and means for securing said frame inposition.

ln testimony whereof l ax my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Louis Braun. [a a] Witnesses ABE Sanlnsirr, T. Sra'rz.

